Peter Pan, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE, sentence 98
In a moment they were as busy as tailors the night before a wedding.
Who acts: news · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter VI. THE LITTLE HOUSE. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 busy | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 busy | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 busy | cop |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 7 busy | advmod |
| 7 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 tailors | case |
| 9 | tailors | tailor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 busy | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 busy | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | before | before | ADP | _ | 14 wedding | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wedding | det |
| 14 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 busy | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | news | before a wedding; moment; night | as tailors; busy property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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